What’s your temperature?  Too hot?  Too cold?  Just right?  For me the Goldilocks temp is the temperature of life all around me – the Zen temperature.

That’s when ambient nature gets it right and awareness comes alive.  You feel like you are one with everything that is virile, in-the-moment, and urgent with desire.  A soft breeze kisses your cheek in a game of tag before dodging back into the green and sultry canopy overhead.  Butterflies dance in the air like flirtatious rainbows until dusk when they become fireflies winking slowly along your path.  A skein of swallows spirals through the twilight, lifting you into their rush where for a moment you understand why they cry out with almost painfully exquisite passion.  The assault on your senses ignites your inner child and entices you with magic you have forgotten.

The Zen temp.  That’s what my spring has been like.  Not to be confused with room temp.  I am intensely alive.  Injuries, disappointments, underestimations – I always find a way back.  Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been a Phoenix rising from ashes of one sort or another.  The best things in life are self-proving and tend to reappear.

Just now I’m sitting in the dust of two trails that meet where the four corners of the universe touch in a place known as Crow-Hassan.  I believe this is the crossroads of the universe because a solar breeze is washing over me as I write and surrounding meadows stretch to infinity in all directions.  The purple fields of June have faded to be replaced by blazing orange galaxies of geraniums.  A cargo-loader (drone bee) buzzes my Flippa (Australian outback hat), seemingly unable to distinguish floral cues from rank sweat.  My thoughts expand with the view, and I contemplate the multiverse I’m living in and whether or not it is the one that connects up with all my hopes and dreams.  It will somewhere, you know.  The idea of multiverses is that everything that CAN happen IS happening in one universe or another.  So why not your dreams in this one now?  Perhaps it is free will or passion that controls each chain of events.  And maybe you can make it happen over and over again.  Because if all possibilities happen, then repetition of your ideal universe is a possibility that can happen too.  May yours blossom with blazing orange geraniums and may your most perfect moments be at hand.

June’s photos brought a request for more pictures of people in my life, so I’ve included a few from the past month.  Of course, the spontaneous nature of living means that actions rarely get preserved, but here are some from leisure moments: #1 my new friend Clementine, who likes to nuzzle; #2-3 Jennie, who rides Clementine bareback, and myself; #4-5 neighborhood kids Hannah, Hayley & Austin; Annaliese; #6 Navy Seal friend Ben, Sully, Julia, David, Emma (ape-gape party at Rogers theater for “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”); #7-9 new friends, including black stallion Nitro and appaloosa Kisses; #10 been saving this Idaho ski pix for a hot July day; #11 gearing up in the trunk of my car at Crow-Hassan; #12 3-second video of kids swimming is a link at the bottom.

My July column on SU is about tweeting (not tweaking) a novel, and here’s that link:  http://storytellersunplugged.com/thomassullivan/2014/07/15/thomas-sullivan-tweeting-a-novel-or-fickle-fireflies-at-midnight/#respond

Some people hate surprises.  I love ‘ em.  Especially when it’s something like coming home to find a new 500-page book with a whole section about yourself in it!  That’s what happened to me a week ago.  Grant Soosalu, Australian high priest of positive psychology, happily blindsided me with that inclusion in his latest work, summing me up with: “…so full of lyrical wisdom and inspiring, uplifting anecdotes that I feel he is a great exemplar of someone who lives a fantastic life.”  There followed quotes and interviews, some from these very Sullygrams.  ‘Tis an honor, and I am most grateful to Sir Soosalu, whose CV spans the gamut of accomplishments in pioneering motivational science and techniques.  Credentialed in many fields from physics to behavioral sciences, he has mentored CEOs and thousands of others around the globe with his lectures and landmark works.  The new book, Avoiding the Enemies to HAPPINESS, promises to do the same.  Here’s a link to this fresh-off-the-press release: http://www.amazon.com/Avoiding-Enemies-HAPPINESS-Grant-Soosalu/dp/1500251704

A couple dozen days into summer magic already!  “Funny, how Time slips away…”  69 sunsets left, but who’s counting?  I have another trip to Michigan coming up very soon, and a few wildcards possible, and the rest of summer I hope to spend in my beloved Minnesota where Nature knows my name.  Where do YOU go to come fully alive?  Your secret escape begins in your mind, ends in your soul, and is as close as your heart.

Thomas "Sully" Sullivan

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